My View from Mill Bay
From the Short Story Vault
This is interesting:
Filming sites in Germany
Warning: after listening to this movie’s theme song you will have serious trouble getting the tune out of your head.
Dedicated to the fifty who were murdered.
Probably one of the best war stories out there.
Vimy Ridge defined Canada as a nation. Here is a poem I wrote in honour of that great battle and the men who fell there.
09 April 2017
100th Anniversary of the Battle for Vimy Ridge
Canada’s Birth by Fire
Reflection’s wise. Its true insight flies
Throughout our minds and forever binds us
To eternal life that is devoid of strife
Just peaceful thoughts, not restless, nor caught
Into that web of war to tread
Not normalcy! Pure madness bred our way to be
Yet as one we brand an ancestral land
As our spirits rise to embrace God’s sky
And shed away our fears.
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Our thoughts of home as our mothers roam
Among our graves, their faces brave
To the sadness here of men with fear
Yet for our nation’s prayers we died out there
For a home sweet home, dear Canada
That knowledge bears a passion… flares
Within our hearts, to love; to shove
Our fears aside and run in stride
To get away from there
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Over top we’d go in whistled throes
That plundered us within gun sight foes
Such madness…crushed, our brothers flush
With abject fear with those guns so near
We’d pray in silence for our leader’s guidance
For in them we trust and as Canucks we thrust
So far ahead though we walked with dread
With the barrage we shudder, our blanket cover
Oh God we’re scared.
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The earth it shakes… please mothers take us
Into your arms and away from harm
We’d fall in silence…no pride in violence
We looked ahead for behind ’s our dead
Their faces seared, no longer feared
Just a darkness now with thoughts that bow
To a light that’s gone, forever done
For now it seems our passion stream
Is ebbing some for our time has come
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We fought for glory, each life a story
With silent breath we faced cruel death
Our youthful brash ‘gainst madness, crashed
Into the mud, the cold, the blood
That Ridge has been a horror scene
A Ridge that bears our lives and shares
Blood curdling chills, then silence… killed
And down we go with our cries now still
Just silent prayers to loved ones shared…so far from there
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The death knell rings for our lives and brings
A peace you share from that Ridge out there
Is a peace we paved to our silent graves
And a peace we share in God’s love’s lair
We were men of arms, a brotherhood
And beyond that Ridge, your nationhood
With souls set free our spirits now see
Just peaceful lands and a national brand…your nation‘s free!
Yet horrendous loss this madness cost…Canadians!
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Please…remember us
Here is the anthem that those men fought under:
Combined with this:
And today:
Never forget and never let wokeness scuttle our great heritage.
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SJ….Out
This Liberal government is a joke. They have to be voted out.
Earlier this month, the Canadian Armed Forces issued a directive that prohibits chaplains from reciting religious prayers and mentioning God during official public functions and ceremonies, including Remembrance Day. Veteran Tom Marazzo joined True North’s Andrew Lawton to discuss the implications of this directive, and its impact on the traditions and values that many veterans hold dear.
My father, a veteran of the second world war, is rolling in his grave at the moment.
As for me? Is this why I served for 37 years in the RCN?
Shame.
Souda Bay, Crete
Margraten, The Netherlands
A great movie. They do not make them like this anymore. The theme song is great but I challenge anyone to get it out of their head after listening to it:
By the way, a true story but there were no Americans who took part in the escape. Only British, Canadian, some Polish, Dutch, Norwegian, Australians, New Zealanders and others. 50 of the escapees were murdered by the Nazis.
Biden and his staff are completely out of touch with reality:
On Wednesday, the White House announced a “National Strategy to Counter Islamophobia,” the necessity of which, is that Muslims endure a disproportionate number of “hate-fueled attacks and other discriminatory incidents.”
Wait a minute here:
Last year set a record in the US for anti-Jewish hate crimes, breaking the previous record that was set the year before. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, antisemitism has erupted in our cities and on campuses, this time with the imprimatur and cooperation of the identitarian (sic) left.
Of course, not to be outdone by those dastardly Americans, Canada doubles down on fighting so called Islamophobia:
According to the CBC…“The evidence is clear. Islamophobia is an acute threat to Canadian Muslims and urgent action is needed,” Sen. Salma Ataullahjan, chair of the Senate human rights committee, told reporters Thursday.
“We must commit to building a more inclusive country and to better promoting our Muslim relatives and friends, neighbours and colleagues.”
But for Canadians of Jewish origin and heritage? Hmmm…not so much.
Canada, and the Liberal Prada CBC, are also a way out of touch with reality.
CBC’s top official is standing by the state broadcaster’s erroneous reporting on a Gaza hospital attack (by the IDF) that never happened.
“I will not apologize because our journalism is among the finest in the world,” CBC CEO Catherine Tait told Conservative MPs Thursday. “Our journalists operate in an independent fashion independent of management, independent of the board of directors and independent of government and political influence.”
Just a few weeks back reporters were directed by supervisory staff at CBC that they could not refer to HAMAS as terrorists! So there CBC. So much for independent reporting. She and the CBC, and the Liberal government, are way out of touch. They must think we are stupid.
This is what Canadians are paying $1.4 B dollars for.
Hey, maybe we are….stupid.
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So, you are going to buy an EV huh? Shocking!
Insurance rates on EVs and houses that store them are soaring. Soon to be uninsurable.
That’s okay, say our dear leaders. We will force them to insure them just like we will force Canadians to buy EVs or have no cars at all.
Those insurance rates, coupled with the cost of EV repairs, have made the expensive automobiles almost exclusively a luxury product.
“But…but, we don’t want EVs…”so say Canadian consumers. “We don’t care what you want plebes, you are going to get them whether you want them or not…” so says our Canadian Prime Minister.
What ever happened to accountability. Oh yeah, Canada’s Supreme Court ruled that there are no legal requirements for politicians to represent their constituents or adhere to their needs or wants.
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In all my travels in Europe these past two months: Spain, Portugal, Crete and the Netherlands, I never saw a single EV. But here on Vancouver Island? Hundreds of Teslas and other models. You see them everyday. And it is you, dear plebe taxpayer who are subsidizing them.
Oh yeah, and not a single homeless person. The odd beggar yes, usually outside of a church, but nothing compared to what we have here.
BTW, cities over there are light years ahead of us in just about every standard of living category.
Oh and BTW, BTW, bai – Canada is by far the woke-ist country on the planet.
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Another poke at our freedoms.
BC will ban short term rentals. Homeowners will not be allowed to rent out rooms or basement suites on a short term basis.
Can’t cut down a tree even if it impinges on hydro lines or poses a fire hazard during dry spells.
Hey, ban all gas powered garden tools.
No more wood stoves.
No more natural gas in our home appliances.
No more propane.
Why can’t they just leave us alone.
But…but it is for the greater good.
Goodness me!
Freedom! Yesssss.
But not in Canada you say? Shitty (sic).
Our so called leaders are completely out of touch with reality. They have all drank the psychedelic kool-aid.
Yes, in-laws can be a bother but….
Ms Patterson, from Victoria Australia, made beef wellington for her estranged husband Simon’s parents Gail and Don, both 70, as well as Gail’s sister Heather Wilkinson, 66, and brother-in-law Ian Wilkinson, 68.
Heather, Gail and Don all died days later having fallen seriously unwell, while Ian spent nearly two months in hospital before eventually recovering.
I told you we should have gone Vegan!
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“But we don’t want wind farms off of our coast…”so say the residents of New Jersey….”never mind what you want” says New Jersey Governor…”you are getting them.”
“But we don’t want mass immigration…” so says Canadians…”never mind what you want…”says Prime Minister Trudeau…”you are going to get over 500K new immigrants a year.”
“We need more Liberal voters, don’t ya know. And we have to fill all of those parks with new Canadians.”
Canadian tent manufacturers are jumping for joy and glee.
“But we don’t want the carbon tax to fight climate change. It is killing us financially” so say most Canadians…”never mind what you want….” so says Prime Minister Trudeau…”we are going to double down on the tax.”
“We need more money…” so says our Prime Minister…”we have to go green.”
Breaking news. This just-in…Opposition Conservatives have obtained leaked secret recordings concerning a billion dollar Liberal “green” slush-fund that was used to funnel “free money” to “well connected Liberals.”
Where’s the beef?…erm pork
Where are the green backs?
Where are the Liberals?
A liberal porker!
You are in good Liberal hands.